By IANS,
Jammu : Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Tuesday cut short a public meeting rather than make a promise he couldn’t keep and then advised his colleagues – read ministers and National Conference leaders – to follow his lead.
“My colleagues would be well-advised to learn that I refuse to hold out false promises just to see a public meeting succeed,” Abdullah posted on micro-blogging site Twitter.
“I would rather short-circuit the public meeting & leave rather than promise a new district where I can’t give one in the short term,” he added.
The tweet came after he cut short his public meeting at Beerwah, in Budgam district in Central Kashmir. At Beerwah, according to an official handout, he had refused to make a commitment to grant it district status.
Some people at the public meeting, organized by the National Conference, had raised the demand for the district status.